Newsletter June 2020

Pfizer uses
Julia to accelerate simulations of new therapies for metabolic diseases
up to 175x. More information is available
here.

JuliaCon 2020 Goes Online – Register for Free Now to Reserve Your
Spot:
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, JuliaCon 2020 has moved
online. Please click here to reserve your
spot
for July 29-31 and for more
information. Julia Computing staff will be available online via email
and Slack during the conference to answer questions.

2020 Julia User & Developer Survey: The second annual Julia User &
Developer Survey is open now. The survey is available in four languages:
English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. Please click here to
respond
and please forward
the link to friends and
colleagues who use Julia. Results will be presented during JuliaCon.

JuliaTeam v1.5 Now Available: JuliaTeam v1.5 is now available.
JuliaTeam provides
enterprises using Julia with governance and private package management.
New features in JuliaTeam v1.5 include:

1. New dashboard page with information about new packages, recently
updated packages, popular packages and

popular tags

2. Improved search and license detection

3. New details page for individual packages with rich description
including usage, dependencies, reverse dependencies, contributors and
documentation

4. Simpler registration workflow for Gitlab registries

5. Dark mode UI

6. JuliaRun: Multithreading support, job comparison, output handling and
UI improvements

7. JuliaRun: Use unregistered packages for jobs

New Free Julia Courses on JuliaAcademy: New Julia courses available
for free through JuliaAcademy include Julia for Data
Science
(Dr. Huda
Nassar) and Introduction to
DataFrames.jl

(Dr. Bogumił Kamiński). Other free Julia courses available through Julia
Academy include Introduction to
Julia
(Dr. Jane Herriman),
Foundations of Machine
Learning

(Dr. Chris Rackauckas), Deep Learning with
Flux.jl
(Dr.
Matt Bauman), Parallel
Computing
(Dr. Matt
Bauman) and the World of Machine Learning with
Knet

(Dr. Deniz Yuret).

Julia Is Used to Project Hospital Utilization During COVID-19: A
new paper
published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses
Julia to project hospital utilization during COVID-19. The paper is
available here

and the code is available on
GitHub
.

Julia for Machine Learning Book Published – Discount Code Available: Dr. Zacharias Voulgaris has published Julia for Machine Learning which joins his earlier volume Julia for Data Science. Both books are available for purchase in PDF, print or ebook. The print and PDF versions are available with a 25% discount using the code JuliaJune.

Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey: Stack Overflow has published
their 10th annual developer
survey

of more than 66,000 developers. Julia ranked sixth at 62.2% on the list
of languages that developers are currently using and would like to
continue using.

Graph Processing Benchmarks: Timothy Lin has published new
benchmarks

of LightGraphs.jl vs. Igraph, Graph-tool, SNAP and NetworKit. More
information is available
here.

UMB Grants Pumas-AI Exclusive License for Lyv: University of
Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has granted exclusive license for
Lyv
,
a dosing app built in Julia, to Pumas-AI.
Pumas-AI is a pharmacology and pharmacometrics
startup created by Julia Computing and UMB Professors Vijay Ivaturi and
Joga Gobburu. Lyv uses patient data to provide personalized and
continuously optimized dosing recommendations for pharmaceutical
treatment.

Context Free Interviews Julia Co-Creators and Julia Computing
Co-Founders Viral Shah and Jeff Bezanson:
Context Free interviewed
Viral Shah and Jeff
Bezanson
about Julia.
You can watch the full interview
here
.

Julia Event Calendars: For the latest information about upcoming
online events, please visit the Julia Computing Calendar of
Events
and the Julia Language
Calendar of Events
.

Julia Computing Enterprise Products

  • JuliaSure:
    JuliaSure from
    Julia Computing provides full service development support,
    production support and indemnification for companies using Julia.
    Subscriptions are USD $99 per month. Click here to
    subscribe
    .

  • JuliaTeam:
    JuliaTeam from
    Julia Computing lets your entire enterprise work together
    using Julia. Collaborate, develop and manage private and public
    packages across your organization, manage open source licenses and
    benefit from continuous integration, deployment, security, indemnity
    and enterprise governance. Click here for more
    information
    .

  • JuliaRun:
    JuliaRun from
    Julia Computing helps you scale and deploy Julia using high
    performance computing (HPC) resources, including large parallel
    simulations and analyses in the cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure or
    Google Cloud. Click here for more
    information
    .

  • Pumas: Pumas
    from Julia Computing is a comprehensive platform for pharmaceutical
    modeling and simulation, providing a single tool for the entire drug
    development pipeline. Click here for more
    information
    .

Upcoming Julia Computing Online Trainings, Microtrainings and
Webinars:
Julia Computing provides a number of online Trainings,
Microtrainings and Webinars. All are conducted by advanced Julia
Computing instructors. Click the links below to register.

Title

Date and Time

Event Type

Instructor

Cost

Register

Introduction to Julia

Wed June 10 & Thu June 11

11 AM – 3 PM Eastern (US)

Training

Julia Computing

$250

Register

Bullish on Fast Code? Julia for Finance

Fri June 12

12 Noon – 1 PM Eastern (US)

Webinar

Dr. Matt Bauman

Julia Computing

Free

Register

Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Julia

Wed June 17 & Thu June 18

11 AM – 3 PM Eastern (US)

Training

Julia Computing

$500

Register

How to Build a Model Using Flux and Productionize It

Fri June 19

12 Noon – 1 PM Eastern (US)

Microtraining

Dhairya Gandhi

Julia Computing

Free

Register

Parallel Computing in Julia

Wed June 24 & Thu June 25

11 AM – 3 PM Eastern (US)

Training

Julia Computing

$500

Register

Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics Using Pumas.jl

Tue June 30

12 Noon – 1 PM Eastern (US)

Webinar

Dr. Vijay Ivaturi, Pumas.ai

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Free

Register

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

  • Entwickler: Julia Ist Bei Einfachen Machine-Learning-Aufgaben mit Python Vergleichbar, Aber Besser Geeignet für Komplexere

  • JAXenter: Julia Is Comparable to Python for Simple Machine Learning Tasks and Better for Complex Ones

  • Analytics India: How Differentiable Programming Helps in Complex Computational Models

  • TechCentral: Julia vs. Python – Which Is Best for Data Science?

  • HPCWire: Julia Researchers Create Verifiable Neural Net in Julia for COVID-19 Epidemiology

  • Analytics India: Top 9 Machine Learning Frameworks in Julia

  • Analytics India: Top 10 Speakers at Plugin 2020

  • Analytics Insight: Decoding the Popularity of Jupyter Among Data Scientists

  • Analytics Insight: Top 10 Data Science Experts to Follow on Twitter

  • ZDNet: Programming Languages: Developers Reveal What They Love and Loathe, and What Pays Best

  • Towards Data Science: Bye-Bye Python. Hello Julia!

  • UMB: UMB Grants Pumas-AI Exclusive License for Lyv, a Cutting-Edge Clinical Decision Support System

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Projecting Hospital Utilization During the COVID-19 Outbreaks in the United States

  • Analytics India: AIM’s Virtual Conference – Plugin Day 2 Highlights

  • Business Insider: The 14 Most Loved Programming Languages, According to a Study of 65,000 Developers

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Julia is the fastest high performance open source computing language for data, analytics, algorithmic trading, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other scientific and numeric computing applications. Julia solves the two language problem by combining the ease of use of Python and R with the speed of C++. Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and unlimited scalability with minimal effort. Julia has been downloaded more than 15 million times and is used at more than 1,500 universities. Julia co-creators are the winners of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the 2019 Sidney Fernbach Award. Julia has run at petascale on 650,000 cores with 1.3 million threads to analyze over 56 terabytes of data using Cori, one of the ten largest and most powerful supercomputers in the world.

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